The returns represent 45 percent of the registered voters in Whitman County. County election supervisor Debbie Hooper said the Auditor's Office received 2,000 mail-in balltos today, which will be counted and the numbers released Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. The office expect to receive another 2,000 in the coming days.

In the race for county auditor, incumbent Eunice Coker had a lead of 1,747 votes over Democratic challenger Nathan Horter.

Coker, a Republican, had received 4,726 votes as of Tuesday night. Horter's vote count on Tuesday was 2,979.

In the race for Washington's U.S. Senate seat, The Associated Press is reporting that incumbent U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell has defeated Republican challenger Mike McGavick.